A Calvinist (Charles Simeon) and an Arminian (John Wesley) had this conversation over two hundred years ago and we can all learn much from it today:
Charles: Sir, I understand that you are called an Arminian; and I have been sometimes called a Calvinist; and therefore I suppose we are to draw daggers. (more…)
When Flavius Claudius Julianus became the Emperor of Rome in A.D. 361, he did everything in his power to destroy Christianity and by reviving the old pagan religion of Rome (more…)
They live in their own countries, but only as aliens; they participate in everything as citizens, and endure everything as foreigners. Every foreign country is their fatherland, and every fatherland is foreign. (more…)
Editor’s note: A minister, about to write an article criticizing a fellow minister for his lack of orthodoxy, wrote to John Newton of his intention. Newton replied as follows:
Dear Sir,
As you are likely to be engaged in controversy, and your love of truth is joined with a natural warmth of temper, my friendship makes me solicitous on your behalf. You are of the strongest side; for truth is great, and must prevail; so that a person of abilities inferior to yours might take the field with a confidence of victory.